Description: If «Edit Text» is a member of item list of an active «Window», then the value of this attribute is that «Window»; otherwise it is NULL.
Description: This item can be made the selected text item if and only if the value of this attribute is TRUE, and the value of the visible? attribute is TRUE.
Description: «Edit Text» is displayed in the owning «Window» if and only if the value of this attribute is TRUE, and the value of the active? attribute is TRUE. If a selected «Edit Text» is made invisible or inactive, it is deselected.
Side effects: Setting causes «Edit Text» to be redrawn in the owning «Window».
Description: The location of «Edit Text» is changed relative to the size of the owning «Window» if and only if the value of this attribute is TRUE.
Description: The default font in which «Edit Text» is drawn. See Mac Constants (geneva, and so on) in the ˙Info… dialog for some values, as well as chapter 7, “The Macintosh Toolbox.” Refer to Chapter 4, “Application Builder”, for a discussion of how Edit Text and Scroll Text styles and style records are used.
Side effects: Setting causes «Edit Text» to be redrawn.
Description: The default style in which «Edit Text» is drawn. See Mac Constants (bold, and so on) in the ˙Info… dialog for some values, as well as chapter 7, “The Macintosh Toolbox.”
Side effects: Setting causes «Edit Text» to be redrawn.
Description: Text that is displayed in the item. It can have a maximum length of 32K bytes. If the text is longer than 32K bytes, it is truncated to that size.
Side effects: Setting this attribute causes «Edit Text» to be redrawn immediately only if the «Edit Text» is the selected text item in its owning «Window». Otherwise the redraw is delayed until the Application Manager processes the update event after the user’s method finishes.
Setting this attribute also sets the style record attribute to NULL, and applies the default font, size and style to the new text.
Description: The range of characters selected. If the value of selection is {x y}, x is the first character in the selection, and y the last, with 0 being the first character in the «Edit Text».
Side effects: If the selected characters are outside the visible rectangle, they are scrolled into view and all characters in the selection range are highlighted.